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Mar 25, 2022

Food Donations are Needed at the JFS Food Pantry

With the rising costs of food and the inconsistent food supply on grocery store shelves, everyone is feeling the pinch in terms of budgeting. JFS food pantry clients are expressing how hard it is to stretch their dollars and they are looking to the pantry for help with their upcoming holiday…

Mar 23, 2022

Can breathing exercises help with COVID-19?

As we have learned during these challenging times, COVID-19 can present differently in different people. Some who get sick from this viral infection often experience a restriction of the respiratory tract which obstructs the air flow into the lungs. Certainly, this poses a greater problem fo…

Mar 23, 2022

Security check Camp Laurelwood

Since he was hired this past fall, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven's Regional Security Advisor (JSA) Michael Shanbrom has been working hard to develop and administer a comprehensive program to protect Jewish institutions throughout the region. 

As one of his first tasks, Shanbro…

Mar 23, 2022

A Torah, an artist and Camp Laurelwood

In that quintessentially Jewish way, it all started with a question. “What do you think about holding Max’s bar mitzvah at Camp Laurelwood?” my daughter, Suzie, asked in reference to the upcoming bar mitzvah of her son, my grandson. What do I think? Outside, amid the trees and the rust…

Mar 18, 2022

Why is this Passover different than all other Passovers?

A roundtable discussion with our Greater New Haven rabbis

In March 2020 the COVID virus hit full force, sending the world into turmoil as people were forced to isolate  themselves inside their homes, cut off from families and friends. The effect of the pandemic on the global Jewish communi…

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